Too hot to handle

India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough?

Okhla waste-energy plant gets show cause notice

The Timarpur Okhla Waste Management Company has been given 15 days to respond why they defied the terms of the Environment Clearance

A clean country in the offing with new solid waste rules

The rules have gone into details of almost every stage involved in waste management; be it segregation at source, transportation of waste, …

Kicking up a stink

Waste pickers in Pune force corporates and the municipality to address safe disposal of sanitary napkins

MoEF withdraws draft amendments to solid waste management rules

Activists say amendments involve use of expensive, regressive and untested technologies for waste disposal

Court stays proposed amendments to solid waste management rules

Petition before Karnataka High Court says amendments mooted by environment ministry are regressive, promote waste incineration

Lessons from two cities

Pune aims to become a zero-landfill city by 2015. With a range of solid waste management options, the target does not seem too ambitious. …

Win against waste colonialism: US group pledges restorative action after taking back ‘harmful’ report

A 2015 report by US-based Ocean Conservancy blamed 5 Asian countries for plastic waste

No trial incineration of Bhopal’s toxic waste in Nagpur

Madhya Pradesh High Court takes cognisance of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Boards objection

Pressure mounts on UN body to withdraw support to 'dirty' CDM projects

Study criticises EU for using carbon credits from polluting waste incineration plants in developing countries offset emissions

The gas game

Fluorocarbons, which created a hole in the ozone layer, have generated intense global debates. But these have been more about business than …

HFC-23 emissions on the rise

India, China threaten to release more super greenhouse gas; developed countries just as guilty

Environment ministry, CPCB endorse burning Bhopal's toxic waste at Nagpur

Ignore report that says defence research organisation's facility not suitable for disposing of heavy metals

Green tribunal panel finds ash from Okhla plant 'truly hazardous'

Tribunal directs waste management company to control emissions, record plastic content of waste

Oxidising hazardous wastes

Garbage festival

Rightful air

The Philippines finally enacts a law to reduce pollution and bans incineration of waste

Up in arms

MONEYMAKERS

The real killers

The biggest cause of lead pollution may be incinerated waste, not vehicles

The incinerator war

Trash power

Dropping dioxin limits

Civil action

Closing shop

A ban on incinerators is on the anvil in Saitama, Japan